traylor



(No Model.) r 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. M. TRAYLOR.

TRAVELING SIGN FOR (mas;

No. 331,346. Patented Dem-1, 1885.

I x I 35 a /8 (I h i, A5, :f

(No Model.) 3, Sheets-Sheet 3.

G. M. T-RAYLOR.

'TRAVBLLNG SIGN FOR GARS.

Patented Dec. 1, 11885.

N. PETERS, Plumb-Lithographe WllNngwn. 0.0

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. TRAYLOR, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

TRAVELING SIGN FOR CARS.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,346, dated December 1, 1885. Application filed October 17, 1884. Serial No. 145,748. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. TRAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Atlanta, county of Fulton, and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling Signs for Cars and other Vehicles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to improvements upon the structure embodied in Letters Patent of the United States No. 303,470, granted to me August 12, 1884, and particularly to the means employed in communicating motion to advertising aprons or belts so arranged within cars, carriages, or other vehicles that the occupant thereof may readily see the advertising matter contained on the aprons; and they consist in the employment of two vertical shafts for transmitting the motion from the car-axle to the advertising-aprons arranged on either side of the car, in the means for com' municating motion to the vertical shafts from one of the car-axles, and in details of construc tion, to be hereinafter described.

The device, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, is embodied in practical form in connection with an elevated-railroad car, it being understood, however, that it may be arranged upon any other car or vehicle it may be desired to provide With the device.

In said drawings, Figure 1 illustrates an end elevation of such arailroad-car embodying the present improvements, its platform being in section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken upon the line 00 x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar section, taken on the line y y of Fig. 1, showing particularly the devices for communicating motion to the vertical shafts. Fig. 4 is a section, similar to that of Fig. 2, of a portion of a car, showing a modified arrangement of the apron-pulleys. Figs. 5 and 6 show by horizontal and vertical sections another modified arrangement of the apronpulleys and vertical shafts.

As illustrated therein, the car, consisting of sides A B, ends 0 D, platform E, roof F, and

wheels G, is of the ordinary and well-known construction, and description of the same is not deemed necessary.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, an endless advertisin g apron or belt, 10, is arranged on either side of the car-body, so as to travel along the side thereof, each of which endless aprons are mounted on pulleys 11 12 13 14, which are suitably held on the outside of the car-body, at or near the car ends the said ends being provided with narrow openings for the passage of the aprons. The pulleys 12 let are journaled in brackets mounted to the outside of the carend D, and these pulleys may be rendered adjustable therein in the manner described in my said patent, for the purpose of taking up the stretch of the aprons as they may require it. The apron-pulleys ll 13 are fixedly mounted at or near the upper ends of two vertical shafts, 15 16. These vertical shafts are preferably placed in close proximity to the car-end O, and as close to the corners or sides A B of the car as the construction thereof will allow. Theupperendsofthese shaft-sfindsuia able bearings in brackets projecting from said car end 0, or said bearings may be provided in the car-roof, and their lower ends, which project a suitable distance through the platform, find bearings therein, and are provided below the platform with grooved or band pulleys 17 18,fixedly secured thereto, as is clearly seen in Fig. 1. Motion is transmitted to both of these vertical shafts by means of a grooved or band wheel, 20, (it might be a sprocket- Whee1,) firmly secured to the car-axle 21, preferably located at or near the center thereof, from which wheel 20 is led a band, cord, or chain, 22, to and around a grooved or band wheel, 23, (it might also be a sprocket-wheel,) that is fixedly secured to the lower end of a sleeve, 24, that is mounted on a stud, 25, that is fixed to and depends from the under side of the platform E. This stud 25 may be adj ustably secured to the platform, if deemed desirable, so that the slack of the several bands, cords, or chains can be readily taken up, and this might be accomplished in any well-known manner, 'bolts 3 (one only of which is shown) serving in the present instance to illustrate a simple method of rendering the position of the stud adjustable. This stud 25 is preferably situated at or near the center of the platform, and a suitable distance from the canaxle 21, so as to stand a distance therefrom for the easy travel of the twisted band or chain 22.

. tion of the vertical shafts, are removed from sight, and thus do not tend to disfigure the outward appearance of the car or vehicle. One or the other of the advertising-bands may be rendered inoperative by simply removing one of the bands 5 6 and thus any change in the advertising matter can be made without necessarily stopping both aprons.

Should it be desired to affix this advertising system to a car in course of construction, the vertical shafts would preferably be positioned within the car end, as also the apron-pulleys 11 13, as seen in Fig. 4, and also their conipanion pulleys '12 14, thus removing all the moving shafts and pulleys from sight. Furthermore, the shafts 15 16 might be located on the outside of the car end and the apron-pulleys mounted within the frame-work of said ends, in which case the vertical shafts would be provided with a pulley, as 8, from which would run a band or cord to and around a similar pulley, 9, fixed to the end of the apronpulleys, as is clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6. 1n either of these constructions, whether the apron pulleys be mounted outside the car ends, within the frame-work of said ends, or entirely within the car, idler-pulleys, as 30 or 31, as seen in Fig. 2, may be provided to suitably guide or sustain the apron in its movements through the car, and one of the idler-s, 30, may be rendered adjustable in its bearings,

as clearly shown in a companion application filed-in the United States Patent Office by me, so as to take up any stretch of the apron, in which case the adjustment of the apron-put leys 12 and 14 may be dispensed with.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, with a railwaycar or other vehicle and endless advertising aprons or belts mounted on pulleys and arranged to travel inside the car along its sides, of the vertical driving-shafts 15 16, mounted outside the car-body, and the duplex pulleys 26, and

connections located below the platform thereof transmitting motion to said shafts from one car-axle, substantially as described.

2. The combination,with the vertical shafts 15 16, mounted outside the car-body and provided with the apron-pulleys 11 13, secured thereto, of the duplex pulleys 26, and connections located below the platform of thecar or vehicle for transmitting motion from onecaraxle to said vertical shafts, substantially as described.

3. The combinatiomwith the endless advertising-aprons mounted upon pulleys and arranged to travel along the sides of a car or other vehicle, and the vertical shafts 15 16, mounted outside the car-body and provided with pulleys 17 18, of the stud 25, carrying duplex'pulleys 26 and pulley 28, and the pulley 20, secured to the car-axle, and means for connecting said pulleys for driving said shafts, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE M. TRAYLOR.

Witnesses:

T. H. PALMER, GEO. H. GRAHAM. 

